Igboid languages constitute a branch of the
Volta–Niger language family. The subgroups are:
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Ekpeye
Ekpeye people also known as Ekpeye Kingdom (An Igbo sub group) claim to have fled Bini to settle in Rivers State, Niger Delta, Nigeria. However, they speak an igboid language and dialect have no similarity to the aforementioned claim of migrati ...
* Nuclear Igboid:
Igbo
Igbo may refer to:
* Igbo people, an ethnic group of Nigeria
* Igbo language, their language
* anything related to Igboland, a cultural region in Nigeria
See also
* Ibo (disambiguation)
* Igbo mythology
* Igbo music
* Igbo art
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* Igbo-Ukwu, a t ...
,
Ikwerre,
Ika,
Ngwa
Ngwa people (''Ṅgwà'' ), an Igboid tribe in south eastern part of Nigeria. It's also the largest and most populous ethnic group in Abia state southeastern Nigeria. They occupy an area of about , although some accounts read at least . In 1979, t ...
,
Izii–
Ikwo
The Ikwo is a subgroup of the Igbo people who live in southeastern Nigeria. The area is rich in mineral resources, and the ancestors of today’s inhabitants developed bronze-casting techniques over a thousand years ago, some found in the town of ...
–
Ezza
Ezaa or Ezza is a northeastern Igbo sub-group, in Ebonyi State, southeastern Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a ...
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Mgbo,
Ogba Ogba may refer to:
*Ogba people
*Ogba language
Ogba (also Olu Ogba, mobu onu Ogbah) is an Igboid language spoken by Ogba people of Nigeria.
Writing system
Certain digraphs and trigraphs are also used.
The tones are indicated with diacritics:
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and
Ukwuani-Aboh-Ndoni
Williamson and
Blench conclude that the Nuclear Igboid languages (Igboid apart from Ekpeye) form a "language cluster" and that they are somewhat
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...
.
However, mutual intelligibility is only marginal, even among the Izii–Ikwo–Ezaa–Mgbo languages.
Igboid speakers are about 60 million people.
[http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2012-078.pdf ]
Names and locations
Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).
See also
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List of Proto-Igboid reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
*Blench, Roger. 2016
A reconstruction of the phonology of proto-Igboid
{{Niger-Congo branches
Volta–Niger languages